In these lines, Hornbeck is using a metaphor by explaining how the town has become more modern even though they do not want to admit it. By saying the town has put a highway with telephone poles threw the backwoods. There no one can see them, but they still exist. He is saying at one point the town was once at the fundamentals of christianty but now they are just using this to get popular and just using Brady for their own selfish reasons of getting attention to the town.
Wake up, Sleeping Beauty. The ordinary people
Played a dirty trick on Colonel Brady.
They ceased to exist
Time was
When Brady was the hero of hinterland,
Water-boy for the great unwashed.
But they've go inside plumbing in their heads these days! There's a highway through the backwoods now,
And the trees of the forest have reluctantly made room for
Their leafless cousins, the telephone poles. Henry's Lizzie rattles into town
And leaves behind
The Yesterday-Messiah,
Standing in the road alone
In a cloud of flivver dust.
The boob has been de-boobed.
Colonel Brady's virginal small-towner
Has been had-
By Marconi andMontgomery Ward.
Your opening statement is spot on. There are a few things that need to be discussed.
"There no one can see them, but they still exist", this comment is great, but only scratches the surface.
Not only do they exist, but Brady and some of the towns people choose not to see them. And modernism isn't going to wait for them to wake up and hop on board.
Brady and the values that he represents, if the believer is not open to considering the new ideas of moderins, will be left behind in a cloud of flivver dust (technological advancement).
Wake up, Sleeping Beauty. The ordinary people
Played a dirty trick on Colonel Brady.
They ceased to exist
Time was
When Brady was the hero of hinterland,
Water-boy for the great unwashed.
But they've go inside plumbing in their heads these days!
There's a highway through the backwoods now,
And the trees of the forest have reluctantly made room for
Their leafless cousins, the telephone poles.
Henry's Lizzie rattles into town
And leaves behind
The Yesterday-Messiah,
Standing in the road alone
In a cloud of flivver dust.
The boob has been de-boobed.
Colonel Brady's virginal small-towner
Has been had-
By Marconi andMontgomery Ward.
Your opening statement is spot on. There are a few things that need to be discussed.
"There no one can see them, but they still exist", this comment is great, but only scratches the surface.
Not only do they exist, but Brady and some of the towns people choose not to see them. And modernism isn't going to wait for them to wake up and hop on board.
Brady and the values that he represents, if the believer is not open to considering the new ideas of moderins, will be left behind in a cloud of flivver dust (technological advancement).